Restoration reveals possible self-portrait by Michelangelo
Thursday July 2, 2009
After seven years of restoration work on paintings in the Pauline Chapel inside the Vatican, the last frescoes Michelangelo ever painted are now more clear and vivid than they've been in centuries. In the process of restoration, a figure that some art experts believe may be a self-portrait by the artist was spotted. The image in question is a bearded figure on horseback in a blue turban in The Crucifixion of St Peter.
Find out more about this intriguing discovery in the article by Richard Owen in the UK Times Online, where you can see the fresco in its entirety and a close-up of the figure in question. And have a look at other portraits of Michelangelo in this image gallery by your Guide.
Comments
Considering he put himself on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, doesn’t surprise me at all that there’d be other self-portraits of the man around. The discovery itself is fascinating, though.